Non-refillable bottle.



(lo Model.)

WITNESSES:

C. WEDGEFUTH.

' Non-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed. Oct. 19, 1901.)

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Patenfed July l5, |902.

UNITED STATES 4PATENT OEEICE.

LOUIS C. WEDGEFUTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NON-.REFILLABLE BOTTLE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,994, dated July 15, 1902. Application tiled October 19, 1901. Serial No.` 79,291. (Nomodel.)

T0 @ZZ whom, it' may con/cerro:

Be it known that I, Louis C. WEDGEEUTH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Manhattan borough, New York eity,in the county and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the followingis aspeciiication.

This invention resides in certain novel features of construction set forth in the following specication and claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure lisa sectional elevation of a bottle. Fig. 2 is anelevation of Fig. l. Fig. 3 shows a series of disks.

In the drawings is shown a bottle a with neck Z1. The latter may be somewhat tapered.

The neck and bottle are separately made and secured or fluXed together. The vjoint is shown at c. A screw-thread and suitable cement applied thereat will serve to secure or fix the parts to one another. In the neck are shown a series of disks or obstructions CZ to CZ for preventing or bathing the entrance of` a tool or frustrating any attempt to Vtamper with the device. The disks are placed suitably close to one another, but need not be uniformly spaced. These disks have perforations or passages therethrough, and the disks are so placed that the channel or passages through one disk will not register with those of another, or, as seen in the case of disk d5, its channels are placed at an incline to the axis of the neck b, so as to point to a closed or imperforate part of disk d6. A tortuous outlet orpassage is thus formed, which, while allowing outflow or discharge of liquid from the bottle, willrprevent insertion of a wire or tampering instrument.

The bottle has a seat e, anda ball f is adapted to close this seat or passage e. The ball is weighted by stem g and4 weight h, and when the bottle stands upright the ball closes or stops the seat. When the bottle is upset, the ball drops away from the seat a suitable distance, the disk d6 being made to limit the playof the ball or its movement away from seat e. The upper end of the stem g terminates in outwardly-spreading curved arms G, that clasp the hollow ball f and to which said terference ball is fused or otherwise suitably secured, so as to move therewith.

rlhe letter t' indicates ribs or guides for the arms G.

The arms G and guidest' may be of any suitable number-say, for example, four. The upper ends of the ribs or guides are oontr`acted or bent inwardly, so as to arrest the movement of the arms G when the ballf falls away from its seat. The arms G are disposed between the ribs z', and the latter operate to guide the ball in its movement away from and toward its seat. This ball being made hollow and of fragile materiaha tool which should succeed in coming into contact with 'such ball would during tampering, destroy or breakthe latter, and thereby betray the in- By being made hollow the ball is also light.

A method of fraud or of refilling suggested was to exhaust the air in the bottle and then submerge the bottle or its neck-mouth in the refilling liquid or liquor, so that the latter would work its way into thebottle. By making the bottle collapsible under vacuum or weakened or thinned at certain places an exhaustion of air to create a void in the bottle for refilling would resultin collapse or breakage of such bottle or of one or more of the weakened or breakable spots`,(indicated at of.) The thin or fragile ball. would also collapse under the breakage consequent on the formation of the vacuum.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a non-rellable bottle, the combination with the bottle-neck having a tortuous outlet or channels and provided at its bottom with a concave valve-seat, of a ball arranged IDO with a concave valve-seat, of a ball arranged l curved inward to limit the movements of the to t said seat, a Weight disposed in lthe botball, substantially as described. l

tle and provided with a stem, the upper end In testimony whereof I have hereunto set of said stem terminatingin outwardly-spreadmy hand in the presence of two subscribing 5 ing curved arms that clasp the ball and are Witnesses.

firmly attached to the latter, the said neck being provided with vertical internal ribs between which are disposed the said arms and Witnesses:

which act as guides for the ball, the upper CHAs. E. POENSGEN, 1o ends of the said ribs being contracted or E. F. KASTENHUBER.

LOUIS C. WEDGEFUTH. 

